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In 1839 Lieutenant Grey started on his second Australian exploring expedition, accompanied by three men of the previous party—a surgeon named Walker, a young friend named Smith, and six other persons, one of whom was an intelligent native. After a few days' coasting in Shark's Bay, they discovered a large river, which they named the Gascoyne, and which they found to open by two mouths, one of which was three quarters of a mile in breadth. They continued to explore the country, accurately surveying and marking down in charts the extensive shores of the bay, amidst many alarms and attacks from the natives.

At length they were compelled, by storms and shortness of supplies, to make for their depot on Bernier's Island. On reaching the coasts, they were found to present so many marks of the past storm that a terrible fear flashed across the mind of Mr. Grey. Having picked out two of his men to accompany him to the depot, which had been formed at some distance inland, staves of flour casks were soon seen scattered about, which told an ominous tale. When they reached the spot at which the depot had been made, so changed was it $hat some of the party doubted whether it was indeed the place; but on going ashore, they found some very remarkable rocks, on the top of which lay a flour cask, more than half empty, with the head knocked out, but not otherwise injured. This cask had been washed up at least twenty feet above high-water mark—a